McConnell pushes back on House GOP plan for Israel, Ukraine aid

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sent a none-too-subtle message to House Republicans Tuesday while panning the lower chamber's push to decouple support for Israel and Ukraine. While refraining from directly calling out the GOP ploy, McConnell (R-Ky.) said in remarks from the Senate floor that the US would be naà¯ve to ignore how the crises are connected. "At the risk of repeating myself, the threats facing America and our allies are serious and they're intertwined," he said. "If we ignore that fact, we do so at our own peril." "The Biden administration's defense budget requests have systematically ignored these growing…